Coeds ruining the nation : women, education, and social change in postwar Japanese media / Julia C. Bullock.

• From sex segregation to coeducation -- Coeducation in the news : from Hokkaidō to Kyūshū -- Female bodies in male spaces : coeducation as portrayed in occupation-era comics -- "Separate but equal" : negotiating the meaning of "equality" within gender difference -- Mixed messages : mediating coeducation through student roundtables -- "Coeds ruining the nation" : coeducation and moral panic.

• "In the late 1800s, Japan introduced a new, sex-segregated educational system. Boys would be prepared to enter a rapidly modernizing public sphere, while girls trained to become "good wives and wise mothers" who would contribute to the nation by supporting their husbands and nurturing the next generation of imperial subjects. When this system was replaced by a coeducational model during the American Occupation following World War II, adults raised with gender-specific standards were afraid coeducation would cause "moral problems"--even societal collapse. By contrast, young people generally greeted coeducation with greater composure. This is the first book in English to explore the arguments for and against coeducation as presented in newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons, student-authored school newsletters, and roundtable discussions published in the Japanese press as these reforms were being implemented. It complicates the notion of the postwar years as a moment of rupture, highlighting prewar experiments with coeducation that belied objections that the practice was a foreign imposition and therefore "unnatural" for Japanese culture. It also illustrates a remarkable degree of continuity between prewar and postwar models of femininity, arguing that Occupation-era guarantees of equal educational opportunity were ultimately repurposed toward a gendered division of labor that underwrote the postwar project of economic recovery"-- 

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Kvinnor  -- historia (sao)

Utbildning  -- historia (sao)

Coeducation  -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Coeducation  -- Press coverage -- Japan. (LCSH)

Coeducation  -- Japan -- Public opinion. (LCSH)

Women  -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 20th century. (LCSH)

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Social conditions.  (fast)

Women  -- Social conditions. (fast)

Social history  (LCSH)

Education--History  -- History (LCSH)

Japan  (sao)

Japan  -- Social conditions -- 1945- (LCSH)

Japan.  (fast)

1900-talet  (sao)

Since 1900  (fast)

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370.820952 (DDC)

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